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SELIJF SORTING CARD FILE Filed July 3o, 1930 3 sheets-snee: 1

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@amm z'n @Zio ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 18, 1931 UNITED STATES yPATEISVF oFFicE CHARLES E. TUMMINELLO, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- FOURTH T0 SAMUEL A. GREENBERG AND 0NE-FOURTH T0 HARRY K. ANGEL, BOTH 0F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA SELIRSORTING CARD FII-E Application filed July 30, 1930.

This invention relates to a card holder, the general object of the invention being to provide means for raising certain cards in the holder so that the same will be separated from the other cards, the invention being more particularly designed for use with cards which are filed according to dates and acts to sort all cards ofy a due date without necessitating the removal of the cards from the holder.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a top` plan View of the invention. l

Figure 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Figure 1. y

Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3 o f Figure l.

Figure l is a view of theshaft.

Figure 5 is a View of a blank from which the hollow slotted member is formed.

Figure 6 is view of one of the cards.

In these drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the holder for the cards and 2 indicates the follower plate vwhich is held in adjusted position by the spring member 3 attached to the'rear face of the follower and having its end portions engaging the rack bars 4: inserted in grooves in the inner side walls of the holder'. By pressing the looped ends 5 of the spring member toward each other, the Yteeth-forming ends of the member will be free of thev rack bars so that the member can be moved rearwardly. It is simply necessary te push the member forwardly to hold the cards in proper position in the holder. Y

Each card B is formed with the depending parts or legs 6 and a plurality of longitudinally extending slats 7 are supportedl Serial No. 471,784.

for vertical movement in the ends of the casing by having their ends extending into the recesses 8 formed in the inner walls of the end pieces. The legs yof the cards rest on these slats and it will be understood that the legs are arranged at different points on the lower edges of the cards so that the legs will rest on diiferent slats. In other words, all the cards bearing the same date, for instance, have their legsY located at the same points so that they will engage the same slats, but cards bearing different dates will have their vlegs arranged to engage other v with the ends of the tongues formed by the slots 10 spaced from the other side edge of the blank so as to form a longitudinally extending slot 11.V The ends of the tubular member are fastened to the walls of the holes in the sides of the casing, as shown at 12. A shaft 13 passes through the tubular' member andhas a nut 14 at one end forpreventing the shaft from being entirely withdrawn from the tubular member and a -handle l5 at its other end so that the shaft can be moved longitudinally and also turned.r

A pair of projections 16 extend laterally from the shaft.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the shaft can be moved longitudinally while the projections 16 are in the slot 11 to position the projections under the slats upon which the cards which are to be raised rest and the shaft is provided with the graduations 17 for facilitating the proper adjustment thereof. Then the shaft is turned so that the projections will pass through two of the slots 10 and thus contact with the lower edges of two of the slats and raise the same, as shown in Figure 3. Thus the cards, the legs of which rest upon these slats, will be raised7 as shown in Figures 2 and 3. Thus these cards are separated or sorted from the other cards.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

lt is to be understood that changes may 10 be made in the construction and in the combination y'and arrangement 'of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claims.

A*What I claim is Y 1. A device of the class" described compris-` ing a card-holding casing, a plurality of slats therein, cards having their lower edges formed'with projections resting upon the slats, the .cards being arranged in sets with the projections of one set in a different location from the projections of the other sets whereby the different sets of cards will engage different slats, selective means for raising the slats which support any desired set of cards, such means consisting of a shaft rotatably and slidablyy arranged inthe casing under the slats and `projections on the shaft for engaging the lower edges of the slats to raise the same when the shaft is s0 turned.

" 2. A device of the class described comprising a card-holding cas-ing, a plurality of slatstherein, cards having their lower ledges formed with projections resting upon the slats, the cards being arranged in sets With the projections of one 'set in a different location from the projections of theother sets whereby'the different sets of cardswill engage different slats, selective means for' raisoA ing the slats which support any desiredl set of'c'ards, such means .ccnsisting of a shaft rotatably and slidably arranged lin the lcasing under the slats, vproje'ctions on the shaft for engaging the lower edges of the slats to raise the samev when the shaft is turned, and

'f a tubular member through which thev shaft passes, said tubular member-having a longitudinal slot and transverse slots opening into the longitudinal slot whereby the shaft can be moved longitudinally with the projections thereon in the longitudinal slot and' then turned to cause the projections to enter certain of the other slots.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

t CHARLES E. TUMMIN ELLO.

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